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“There’s a weird internet cult of renewables haters, and also the strange case of the state of Texas, where renewables are the

   

There is good news. Globally, manmade GHGs are decreasing, perhaps not at the rate we might like to see, but dropping nonetheless. Now for some counterintuitive and bad news.

Bail reform is a political hot button.

For various reasons, this week’s What I Am Reading includes three articles that I mentioned when I started this column, three years ago. It is not that I ran out of material, I just ran out of bandwidth being off the grid.

I am blessed with some good friends, some old, some new, but all that rally around when the times get rough. That was not always the case, especially during my more active work years when we collected “friends” through my interactions at work.

To fuel society, we need both a constant source of power for our baseline needs and a source of extra when demand rises.

The Russians have blamed Ukraine for launching attacks against their forces at the reactor site endangering the reactors; the Ukrainians have accused the Russians of deliberately putting the reactors at risk by stationing troops on the grounds.

“Regrettably, it is now apparent that reasonable, intellectually charitable discussions between progressives and conservatives are quite scarce in many places – leaving little room for compromise or legislative success.

A powerful fusion reactor is working right now – it currently provides just over 3.5% of the world’s energy…it’s called the Sun, and we can only tap it indirectly through solar panels.